My web site "richardrayhannah@yahoo.com was selected as the winner and need to contact scarlet@scarlet-delivery.com to receive my certified check from the dispatch manager Mr. Eric Williams, Phone # +(44)-703-192-4126, E-mail address: scarlet@scarlet-delivery.com. If this is true, let me know. If it is not true this is something you may want to look into to protect your "Yahoo" people. Thank You. Richard Hannah 505-437-2061 or richardrayhannah@yahoo.com Please respond asap.
2007-04-28 10:56:19 · 9 answers · asked by Dick 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
No foreign lottery is able to be won by a U.S. citizen. Simply illegal.
2007-04-28 11:03:25 · answer #1 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello
To determine if it is a fake please consider the following
Have you ever heard of the company in question
Where you expecting an email contact
have you agreed to part with personal details with the company
Have you ever paid to take part in the company lottery
Did the email look legit and professional
Is the email asking for personal data
If you have any doubts, it looks like you have been sent a scam email. I do urge you to look at the email address of the email.
Most likely there is no lottery and the email was sent to make you part with personal information, known as a scam.
If you believe this to be the case, please report the email as scam by clcik the junk mail option.
You may also forward the email to abuse@yahoo.com
Sadly Yahoo and Yahoo Staff will take no further action as it is the responsibility of the Yahoo account holder to maintain security and not take part in scams.
All the best
Moose - Yahoo
2007-04-28 11:04:27 · answer #2 · answered by Chεεrs [uk] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't fall for it.
(By the way -- I presume where you refer to web site' in your query you mean 'email address'? -- these are not the same thging you know. But normally this type of scam is a spam email based con telling you your 'email address' has won some 'spurious and unlikely' big money prize)
This cannot be a Bona Fide web lottery.
There are many scams of this kind doing the rounds and if you were to contact them you would soon be giving over your bank details and likely be asked to 'make a payment' to process release of the 'check'...and naturally...after paying them...you will never hear another thing...
Until you win 'another lottery'!
2007-04-28 11:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by helmut cheez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information. Just google scam and see how many hits yoou get, there are millions of them and they are all aimed at taking your money.An excellent site giving advice on how to recognise and avoid scams is at www.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-lotto.html Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
2007-04-29 08:36:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a total scam ... and that's without even looking at the site.
Why that idiot thinks you're an American citizen when you've asked a question on Yahoo! Answers UK & Ireland is beyond me ... or is it just that too many people are too lazy to even click on the link at the bottom of the page?
2007-04-28 11:09:57 · answer #5 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry, don't bother. I have the same letter regarding my site. And in the future: think about where they get all that money from if you, the winner, didn't pay a penny?
2007-04-28 11:00:14 · answer #6 · answered by Everona97 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any site that say you have won any amount of money is a bogus site,
why would anyone just give money to you there is nothing in life as free money trust me :-)
2007-04-28 11:02:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a scam, ignore it and delete it.
2007-04-28 11:13:38 · answer #8 · answered by nc_hull 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you believe that you are doubtless as stupid as your mother looks.
2007-04-28 10:59:03 · answer #9 · answered by Morrissey Sees And Knows All 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋